jim angle is there right in front of the capitol. jim. >> reporter: hello, breath. as you saw both the president and vice president and the former president's coming in, the crowd could see that on a jumbo-tron and they all started cheering. in fact they started cheering when the president's motorcade got on to the capitol ground. so there is a lot of excitement here as you can imagine, and not only here but as you mentioned all the way up the national mall, up to th the washington monument where you see the crowds now. we are getting to the moments when some of the dignitaries will come out. members of congress have been coming out for some time. there were people here hat 5:00 this morning using windex and brasso to polish the stairway and every inch of carpet, just the things that you do at home, like i do at my house when people come over so everything will be spick and spa speubg spick and span for the second inauguration of barack obama. >> jim angle there on the west side of the capitol. megyn: let's just listen to what is going on. ♪ [music playing] [appla